By Jürgen Möller, hardcover, 352 pages with 92 illustrations. Hardcover. 2nd edition 2013. Series: "End of the War in Central Germany 1945". This book is published as the fourth volume of the multi-part documentation series on the American occupation of Central Germany in 1945. It is thematically connected to the book "The Battle for North Thuringia in April 1945" and focuses on the path of the VII US Corps of the 1st US Army through parts of Lower Saxony, Thuringia, and Saxony-Anhalt. The book chronologically describes the advance of the VII US Corps of the 1st US Army after the encirclement of the Ruhr area, detailing the military situation in Central Germany at the end of March/beginning of April 1945, moving over the rivers Weser and Leine, through the northern Eichsfeld and the West Harz towards Nordhausen, the liberation of the "Mittelbau-Dora" concentration camp, and the subsequent advance.